If the dead can speak, late Emmanuel Jacob, aged 18, would have been able to tell the actual cause of the fight between him and his friend that resulted in his death at Dejioworo Street, Alapere, Lagos.

Oladunjoye, who gave the advice at a stakeholders’ forum with proprietors of private schools in Lagos State on Education Quality Assurance organized by the Office of Education Quality Assurance, emphasized the commitment of the state government in ensuring the safety of the children in the state’s schools as the template already established will be sustained by the incoming administration.

CLERICS under the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, have urged the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, to ensure passage and assent to the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, within his first 100 days in office as President of Nigeria.

The former Minister of Information and governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in the just concluded general election, Labaran Maku, yesterday, said it was totally wrong for Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State to claim victory following the April 11 governorship poll in the state, saying that he should pack his bags at the end of his tenure today.

The Holy bible says that there is time for everything under the sun; going ahead to cite the transient nature of life and living. In the same vein, there is time for every government to come to an end; when office holders will look back at the years spent in service and beat their chests in pride or become downcast at the fluffed opportunities and efforts wasted, which could have translated into better lives for the people or greater service

Government has been advised to provide enabling environment for private educational institutions that would enable them support government in its quest to raise the standard of education in Nigeria. An educationist and founder of Cayley College, Ikeja, Lagos, Dr. Mary Iyayi gave the advice while reviewing the state of education in the country.

The Charles Bebeye Ndiomu Foundation was at its usual best carrying out its social responsibility, when it took the second edition of its ‘Train the Trainer Initiative’ to Osun State where, with what many participants had described as trainer-skill of the training technical consultant, Axiom Learning Solutions Limited. It staged, for selected number of teachers from across Osun State, a two-day extensive training programme in classroom management and activity oriented lessons in core subjects.

Two persons, including the Minority Leader of the Benue State House of Assembly, Benjamin Adanyi, and a university don, Prof. Aloysius Ihuah have dragged the state government to court over alleged last minute appointments and sale of government property.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State and the Shehu of Bama, Alhaji Kyari Ibn-Umar Ibrahim Elkanemi, yesterday, visited Bama Local Government Area for the first time after it was captured on September 1, last year by insurgents.

SUCCESS is smothered with a galaxy of friends (both true and false) while failure is abandoned as a lonely and desolate orphan. The phones of the former crash due to an inability to process a myriad of incoming calls while that of the latter sooner or later is shrouded in graveyard silence. That unfortunately is the reality and fickleness of man. Both scenarios are so evident in post-election Nigeria.

Government has been advised to provide enabling environment for private educational institutions that would enable them support government in its quest to raise the standard of education in Nigeria. An educationist and founder of Cayley College, Ikeja, Lagos, Dr. Mary Iyayi gave the advice while reviewing the state of education in the country.

GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, has advocated for more Made in Nigeria products and industrial education, pointing out that they will yield the needed prosperity in Nigeria. Speaking at the commissioning of the Festo Authorized and Certified Training (FACT) Center for Industrial Automation in Government Technical College, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Governor Fashola said Nigeria cannot have made in Nigeria products without industrialization, mechanization and automation.

Anyone familiar with the Nigeria sphere will agree that when it comes to policies, the issue is hardly ever with the policies themselves, but in the implementation. This is especially true of the education sector which, over the past few years, has seen a myriad of positive changes on paper, but an even greater avalanche of negative features in practice.

LAGOS—The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five notorious armed robbery suspects who specialised in terrorising residents, traders and commuters at Ketu, Iyano-Era, Alasia, Morogbo and its environs. The suspects, identified as Ajay Solomon, 25; Momodu Williams, 19; Kazeem Ganiu, 19; Elija Dada, 19, and Seun Ariyo, 19, were arrested on Sunday, May 24, during an operation at Ijanikin.

THAT Rivers State will continue to be a theatre of high political drama in the coming months could be an understatement. On Tuesday, 26th March 2015, evidences of this were playing out on two television networks. On the Africa Independent Television (AIT) the crowd of the pro-People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Rivers elite who worked for the victory of Governor-elect, Barrister Nyesom Wike, backed up by former Governor Peter Odili and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Barrister OCJ Okocha, held the fort, with Wike as the principal focus during a public lecture to usher in his administration.